Adaptive spatiotemporal neural networks through complementary hybridization

Yujie Wu, Bizhao Shi, Zhong Zheng, Hanle Zheng, Fangwen Yu, Xue Liu, Guojie Luo and Lei Deng ()
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Yujie Wu: Tsinghua University
Bizhao Shi: Peking University
Zhong Zheng: Tsinghua University
Hanle Zheng: Tsinghua University
Fangwen Yu: Tsinghua University
Xue Liu: Tsinghua University
Guojie Luo: Peking University
Lei Deng: Tsinghua University

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Abstract Processing spatiotemporal data sources with both high spatial dimension and rich temporal information is a ubiquitous need in machine intelligence. Recurrent neural networks in the machine learning domain and bio-inspired spiking neural networks in the neuromorphic computing domain are two promising candidate models for dealing with spatiotemporal data via extrinsic dynamics and intrinsic dynamics, respectively. Nevertheless, these networks have disparate modeling paradigms, which leads to different performance results, making it hard for them to cover diverse data sources and performance requirements in practice. Constructing a unified modeling framework that can effectively and adaptively process variable spatiotemporal data in different situations remains quite challenging. In this work, we propose hybrid spatiotemporal neural networks created by combining the recurrent neural networks and spiking neural networks under a unified surrogate gradient learning framework and a Hessian-aware neuron selection method. By flexibly tuning the ratio between two types of neurons, the hybrid model demonstrates better adaptive ability in balancing different performance metrics, including accuracy, robustness, and efficiency on several typical benchmarks, and generally outperforms conventional single-paradigm recurrent neural networks and spiking neural networks. Furthermore, we evidence the great potential of the proposed network with a robotic task in varying environments. With our proof of concept, the proposed hybrid model provides a generic modeling route to process spatiotemporal data sources in the open world.

Date: 2024
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